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Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Department Utilization Hear about what leading organizations are doing to increase patient access to care, educate patients about appropriate use of health services, and develop targeted programs for frequent users. In this...
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Join us for a webinar hosted by Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable
Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Department Utilization Hear about what leading organizations are doing to increase patient access to care, educate patients about appropriate use of health services, and develop targeted programs for frequent users. In this...
Year in Review: Navigating Cancer Leads Value-Based Cancer Care Innovation in 2019
This has been a strong year for Navigating Cancer, as we remain the leading provider of patient relationship management software (PRM). We are pleased to continue our status as a frontrunner for oncology-focused technology development. In 2019, we expanded the mobile...
The importance of personalized patient education in cancer care
We have seen the pharma-provider relationship and healthcare landscape continue to evolve in recent years. As the rate of oncology drug approvals increases, both through additional indications and new treatment innovations, ensuring oncology physicians and patients...
What you should know about the proposed Oncology Care First model
On November 1, CMS released an informal Request for Information (RFI) for their proposed Oncology Care First model. This proposed model is designed to be a successor to the Oncology Care Model (OCM), which is ending in 2021. As the comment period closes on December...
Need a flexible program to support cancer patients? Health Tracker might be the answer.
Navigating Cancer is working on some exciting improvements to Health Tracker, our remote monitoring program that gives cancer care providers an easy way to check in with patients about medication adherence and side effects with a simple SMS text message. In working to...
2020 Medicare physician fee schedule changes and value-based care
In early November 2019, CMS finalized their 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule rule. CMS has set in motion changes that will affect value-based care over the next several years. The final rule addresses future changes for MIPS, including the introduction of MIPS...
Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Care
If you’ve been paying attention to trends in the discussions around value-based cancer care, you’ve probably been hearing a good bit about electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs). At the National Oncology Conference, Dr. Ethan Basch, a leading patient-reported...
Personalized Medicine and Value-Based Care
How is personalized medicine impacting oncology? A panel at AJMC’s recent Patient-Centered Oncology Care Conference explored this topic. Payer, diagnostic, and advocacy representatives shared their perspectives in this discussion. What is personalized medicine? The...
Future of Oncology Advanced Payment Models
The shift to value What’s next for oncology advanced payment models? That was the topic one panel tackled at AJMC’s recent Patient Centered Oncology Care Conference. The panel represented the provider, payer, and technology perspectives. There was agreement that the...
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Value-Based Care
Scientific research demonstrates that clinicians miss approximately half of patients’ symptoms during cancer treatment. As a result, patients can suffer due to poor symptom control, treatments may be delayed or missed, and preventable emergency room visits and...
Keeping up with the rapidly changing landscape of cancer care
The American Journal of Managed Care recently hosted the Patient-Centered Oncology Care Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of this meeting was “Innovation and Quality: New Direction in Value-Based Care” and it was comprised of a full day of presentations from...
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